Information About Apples

Apple trees are a great addition to the landscape and will provide an abundance of fresh fruit when given adequate apple tree care. They are one of the most popular fruit trees grown in the home garden but are among the most prone to pests and disease. Read on to learn how to recognize signs beforehand and take appropriate preventative measures for growing healthy apple trees.

If you have your own apple tree, then you know you will harvest far more than can be eaten in one sitting. What is the best way to preserve fresh apples? Click on the following article to find out how to store apples properly for the longest shelf life.

Apple trees are great assets to have in your backyard. While they’re rare, there are actually some apples that pollinate themselves. Click the article that follows to learn more about including these self-fruiting apple trees in the landscape.

Apples are practically synonymous with fall baking, but it’s not all fun and games for the apple grower. Diseases like Armillaria root rot lurk just beneath the surface of the soil, creating substantial challenges to growing the perfect fall fruit. Learn more in this article.

Russeting is a phenomenon that affects apples and pears, causing slightly harder patches of brown on the skin of the fruit. It doesn’t harm the fruit, but it’s not always welcome. Click this article to learn more about apple fruit russet and means of apple russet control.

Brown spots inside apples can have many causes, including fungal or bacterial growth, insect feeding, or physical damage. But, if apples in cold storage develop a ring-shaped brown area under the skin, the culprit might be soggy breakdown disorder. Learn more here.

Apples from your own tree are one of the greatest rewards your garden can provide. But what do you do if your apples look a little less magnificent than the ones at the market? There are several treatments for apple blotch fungus disease; click here to learn more.

Southern blight is a fungal disease affecting apple trees. It’s also known as crown rot, and sometimes called white mold. It is caused by the fungus Sclerotium rolfsii. If you are interested in learning about southern blight in apple trees and its treatment, this article will help.

What is bot rot? It’s the common name for Botryosphaeria canker and fruit rot, a fungal disease that damages apple trees. For more information about apples with bot rot, including information about managing bot rot of apples, this article will help.

Apples have their share of disease and pest issues that many growers have experienced, but they are also susceptible to physiological disorders. One of the more common of these is apple bitter pit disease. What is apple bitter pit in apples? Find out here.

Your apples are ready to harvest but you notice that many of them have small depressions to larger corky, discolored areas on the surface of the fruit. Don’t panic, the apples are still edible they just have apple cork spot disease. Learn more in this article.

If your apple trees are constantly plagued by hole filled, distorted fruits that suddenly just drop off the tree, continue reading this article to learn about controlling twig cutter weevils. Click here for more information.

With so many varieties available, shopping for apple trees can be confusing. Add terms like spur bearing, tip bearing and partial tip bearing and it can be even more so. Most commonly sold apple trees are spur bearing. Learn more about them here.

Did deer beat you to those apples? With proper use of apple companion plants, those deer may have gone elsewhere for a midnight snack. Learn what grows well with apple trees in this article and help fend off these and other would-be intruders.

We love our apples and growing your own is a joy but not without its challenges. One disease that commonly afflicts apples is Phytophthora collar rot, also referred to as crown rot or collar rot. Learn more about it in this article.

Apple leaf curling midges are specifically problematic in northeastern and northwestern states. Click this article to understand the apple leaf curling midge life cycle and how to treat the apple leaf curling midge damage.

Is your apple tree dropping fruit? Don’t panic. There are several reasons why apples drop prematurely and they may not necessarily be bad. Find out what makes apples fall from the tree in this article and what can be done about it.

While apple trees are moderate users of most nutrients, they do use a lot of potassium and calcium. Thus, these should be applied each year when apple tree feeding, but what about other nutrients? Find out how to fertilize apple trees in this article.

Water sprouts are thin shoots that arise from the trunk or branches of an apple tree. Apple tree water sprouts drain vital energy from a tree without providing any benefit in return. Find out what causes unsightly water sprouts and what to do about them in this article.

No space for an apple tree? What if you were to start small, say by growing an apple tree in a pot? Can you grow apple trees in containers? Yes, indeed! Click on this article to find out how to grow an apple tree in a pot.

One of the more dangerous diseases of apple trees is collar rot. Collar rot of apple trees is responsible for the death of many of our favorite fruit trees across the nation. What is collar rot? To learn more, this article will help.

If you’ve visited a farmers’ market or produce stand lately, you’ve probably been amazed at the different types of apples. Click this article to learn about apple tree types and a few of the most common apple varieties.

Many apple trees thin themselves naturally to some extent but may hold onto to some of them. To get the largest, healthiest fruit from an apple tree, you occasionally need to give Mother Nature a hand and thin apple trees. Find out how to thin apple fruit in this article.

I always wondered about the knobby growths on the apple trees and have since discovered that there are a couple of things that can cause them. To learn more about what these are, this article will help with information about apple tree burr knots.

You haven’t seen them at the grocers, but apple growing devotees have no doubt heard of apples with red flesh. A relative newcomer, there are a number of red fleshed apple trees available to the home fruit grower. Read this article to learn more.

Can’t I just plant some seeds from my favorite variety and ensure a life time of apple happiness? How exactly do I create this apple cornucopia? What do I do first? Maybe you, like I, have wondered how and when to harvest apple seeds. Find out here.

Distressing as it is, when block rot attacks your apple trees, it’s not the end of the world. You can get your apples back and have healthy harvests if you understand how to destroy the disease. This article will help with treating black rot in apples.

As much as we love apples, there is a wide array of insect pests affecting apple harvests. What then are some apple tree bug treatments that will assist us with keeping pests out of apple trees? Click here to learn more about them.

Apples are certainly nutritious and are arguably one of America’s favorite fruit. So how do you know when to pick apples and exactly how do you harvest apples and then store them properly? Read this article to learn more about apple harvesting.

Flyspeck on apples is a common problem, but it's simple to manage with some cultural modifications. Learn more about flyspeck and its control in the following article so you can keep it managed in the garden.